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Business Communication Today,
10th Ed.

Excellence in Business Communication,
9th Ed.

Business Communication Essentials,
4th Ed.
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Is Your Business Communication
Textbook Preparing
Students for the Future
or the Past?
Do You Know the
Fallacies about Teaching
Electronic Media?
Does Your Textbook
Cover Business
Communication 2.0?
Video:
A Fundamental Shift in the
Way We Communicate.
(See the New Media
Covered Only by
Bovee and Thill. Are You
Using the Right Text?)
A Letter to Instructors
Video:
Alert! A Paradigm Shift Is
Impacting Business
Communication Courses
Major Study: Thousands of Companies Using Social Media. Will Your Students Be Prepared to Use Social Media on the Job?
Study: 91% Using Social Media.in the Inc. 500-- America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. (Social Media Should Be Part of Your Course. Only Bovee & Thill's Texts Offer Social Media Coverage.)
Teach Your Students How to Use Social Media on the Job. (See sample pages here of Bovee & Thill's coverage you won't find in any competing texts.)
Business Communication Is Changing Due to Social Media (Are Your Students Learning about These Changes from Your Current Text?)
Hundreds of Social Media Examples
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Web Collaboration and Teamwork

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Click to play: Two BusinessWeek editors–Rob Hof and Heather Green–involved in writing and editing the special cover story on Web-smart companies, reflect on the insight they gained about Web collaboration and much more.

An Introduction to Blogs and Wikis in the Business World

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Indispensable business collaboration tools and a powerful means of communicating with customers, partners and employees, wikis and blogs have been compared to e-mail in terms of their potential impact on the enterprise. View the original here.

The Latest Advances in Collaborative Software, Part I

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Sara Bocaneanu presents a comprehensive tour of the latest technologies to improve business collaboration. She discusses the corporate use of instant messaging, wikis, virtual worlds such as “Second Life”, top-end video conferencing, social bookmarking, and collaborative suites. View the original here.

Lynda McDermott on Leading World-Class Teams

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Click to play: In her book, World Class Teams, Lynda McDermott (left) provides a hands-on guide on how to develop, launch, lead, and evaluate, world class teams. With her coauthors William Waite and Nolan Brawley, Lynda draws heavily from their experience with such international firms as Pfizer, Colgate, AT&T, and Motorola to give managers, executive [...]

Online Course: Fundamental Team and Meeting Skills

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

This online course explains the fundamentals of team development, team process and how to conduct effective meetings. The tools and techniques of running a meeting and assorted communication skills are explained. View the original here.

Famous Model of Group Dynamics

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Often quoted, often misunderstood. Bruce Tuckman’s classic description of the stages of group development is easy to understand and remember, but it helps to go back and look at what’s behind each stage. Bruce W Tuckman is a respected educational psychologist who first described the (then) four stages of group development in 1965, soon after [...]

Social Curation: How to Use Pearltrees?

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

A powerful trend taking form in the world of collaborative communication is “social curation,” which is where individuals collaboratively contribute to edit, refine, and compile valuable information resources. A prime example of this trend is a newly launched service called Pearltrees. You can use Pearltrees to keep handy the contents you find everyday on the [...]

Southwest Airlines: Using Myers-Briggs Assessment for Team Building

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Download this PDF file Southwest Airlines uses Myers-Briggs Assessment test to help teams build their communication skills.

Increased Collaboration and Communication Within a Virtual Environment

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Users behave and interact differently in virtual experiences than in standard social networking environments. In this informative video, 6Connex CEO, Kevin Carbone, and CTO, Leon Papkoff, examine why and how group dynamics are affected by the unique experience of virtual environments. View the original here.

Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Stasser and Titus published the best sort of psychology study. Not only does it shine a new light on how groups communicate and make decisions, it also surprises, confuses and intrigues. Oddly, the results first look as if they can’t be right, then later it seems obvious they are right, then attention turns to what [...]

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